Beth Leezer

Smashwords Interview

What motivated you to become an indie author?

I am a natural storyteller. I am from the South, that is how we communicate - through stories. And I have so many stories to tell: Fiction and Non-Fiction. I want people to loose themselves in my worlds and re-emerge with all of their senses satiated. Just as when one devours a delicious meal, leans back from the table and says sleepy eyed, "That was fantastic, I cannot wait till the next one."

How has Smashwords contributed to your success?

Smashwords has let me publish my books and novellas on my own terms. I trust my own editing, my vision and my talent. I have full control. This is rare in the publishing world. Numerous great authors self published: Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters, Lord Byron and Louis L'Amour to name a few. I am in good company.

Books

Did I ever tell you about the night Heaven and Hell flipped a coin for my soul? Do you know Gabrielle? Her whiskey legs stepped right out of a bourbon bottle and into my glass. She was to a pile of coke, what a kitty cat is to a bowl of milk. I coaxed her away from snorting and taught her to free base instead. I also assisted her in a most undignified way of dying. Then I tried to save her life.

Like most best friends in WW II Harry died in Joe’s arms, but not before he shot his murderer between her beautiful gray eyes. It was the end of Nazi occupation in France and American G I Joe Salls was AWOL. He needed existentialist Paris where everyone was licking their wounds. He went searching for something as dangerous to his soul as the the war was to his sanity…and he found her.

The Huntsmen have arrived in Sacred City. They seek the bastard daughter of a demi-goddess. Their purpose? A systematic auction of her body, beginning with that deliciously consecrated soul. But fortune stumbles her into the murderous arms of Beeston Grike. Amidst spilled mead and bloody shackles, his jaded eyes peruse her unfettered smile from which light sings. This evens up the odds nicely.